# Unique Sentences **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195 "2023-06-27T22:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/1 "2023-06-27T22:36:20Z")
This BoredPanda post made me chuckle. > **[This Online Group Celebrates Sentences That Probably No One Has Ever Thought...](https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-brand-new-sentence-posts/)** > > The subreddit “Brand New Sentence” is a place that collects sentences “never before written, found in the wild.” ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/2 "2023-06-28T11:28:29Z")
I was just mentioning linguistic recursion in [another thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-columbus-coming-to-america-is-the-most-significant-thing-to-happen-in-our-human-species/986066/72), and this is closely related to the concept of unique sentences. Basically, every language has a finite set of words and rules but they yield an infinite number of valid sentences. It was actually a little private joke between my ex and I. Sometimes, one of us would utter a weird, yet perfectly meaningful sentence. We would then pause and then go : “Pretty sure nobody has ever said this”. Unfortunately, I can’t remember any specific examples now… ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/3 "2023-06-28T14:19:29Z")
I’ll pause and say “I’ll take _Sentences I Never Thought I’d Say_ for 600, Alex.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/4 "2023-06-29T19:41:25Z")
“[Please Enjoy This Video of a Seal Slapping a Man with an Octopus](https://www.vice.com/en/article/nem7xz/please-enjoy-this-video-of-a-seal-slapping-a-man-with-an-octopus).” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/5 "2023-06-29T21:33:52Z")
I’m sure no one before Chomsky ever said, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” But now it has become a standard example of grammatically correct nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/6 "2023-06-29T22:16:17Z")
George Carlin riffed on this “back in the day”, words you never hear people say. (You just _know_ he would have hated the phrase “back in the day”. I can hear him sneering about it) “Hand me that piano” and “Please saw my legs off”. ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/7 "2023-06-30T07:20:41Z")
As it happens, I heard someone say “I"m pissing sand” in the restroom at work yesterday. I did not inquire further on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/8 "2023-06-30T07:40:08Z")
Overheard from a customer at work a few years ago: “And then my brother died and he took the damn ramen with him, the bastard!” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/9 "2023-07-01T05:11:44Z")
Oh, Goddammit! I wish I could remember the exact quote\*, but it was from Ben Mankiewicz, yes, that Ben Mankiewicz! _“Incest Porn is just as good as Regular porn when the sound is off”_ Did he really just say that??? Rewind. Yes, he did. I’ll leave it up to you to YouTube it. \*I might be wildly off, but the topic is Dead On ---
**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unique-sentences/986195/10 "2023-07-01T05:14:06Z")
Stephen Fry: “Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.”